Mark Twain and Wagner

“Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

I’ve always heard that remark attributed to Mark Twain. But those vary reliable fact-checkers at Urban legends say:

Twain was fond of using this quote, but he appropriately credited it to Edgar Wilson Nye, a fellow humorist.

It’s understandable that we’d come to attributing the remark to Twain.

I mean, who wants to go around saying: “As Edgar Wilson Nye once said: ‘Wagner's music is better than it sounds?’”